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Sit down. Breathe. Write. Repeat...Why?
‘Why’ is such a small and yet impactful word to notice, to understand and to be aware of as you use it. Really, why? Well, it does two things very quickly, immediately in fact. Two things you want to avoid. One, it sends people straight to the...
Celebration
"So how are you going to celebrate Kay?" was the question which immediately made me stop in my tracks! I'd just told a client group how I'd finished a 6 month contract working with Board Directors and all sessions had to be scheduled and delivered by 31st March....
White Flag
When a client said it to me I knew exactly what she meant along the lines of "Sometimes Kay you just have to wave the white flag, surrender and give in to the moment rather than fight it or fight on..." I knew exactly what she meant and I'm sure you do too. There are...
Not Sorry
Hmmm, in the time I have had to dedicate to it this week my weekly eZine got pushed down the queue but one of the things I do know is I commit to writing to you each week and I appreciate the feedback I get and the practice it gives me to keep my writing muscle...
Push Back
It's a tricky old balance being friends at work and actually getting stuff done. One of my clients was telling me how, with my encouragement and support, she's stopped rolling over, extending deadlines and being as malleable as she had been. She's really started to...
Lead In
Snowy has always been slightly in awe of my lead-in time and preparations. Until he started benefitting from them! We call it "working it back" or "reverse engineering our way" and it works for us - here's how. You know you want to be on the train, unruffled and...
Medicine
We all know what we should do and we're very good at telling others what they should do too but...hmmm - do we take our own advice? As I asked a client the question "What would you tell another professional, senior woman to do about this?" she...
Meanie
A quick note from me this week and one a message I know I needed to learn! Today I'm hosting an online Day of Magic with a group of clients and know this will be relevant to them too... As I listened to 2 different private clients this week, the line from Snow...
Barbie
It really made me laugh when I read someone's description of herself as being "Work Barbie". What she was saying was how she put on a work persona which made her more authoritative and comfortable being in a position of responsibility when she was much younger than...
Frozen
It's something we can so easily do and it slows us down like bad software on our computers. We - certainly I have - can hold on to anger or embarrassment or resentment about someone or something that's happened and decide that it means something which it...